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Los Angeles Rams quarterback Baker Mayfield pulled off one of the most improbable victories of his career Thursday night against the Las Vegas Raiders. Mayfield, who was signed to the Rams less than three days ago, led Los Angeles to an incredible win after enduring a 13-point fourth quarter deficit. He led the Rams on a 98-yard drive that was capped off on a 23-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Van Jefferson with only 10 seconds left to win the game. The win was very impressive since Mayfield was studying the Rams’ playbook on his flight into town. Fellow Rams...

The Ministry of Defence is planning to call up to 200,000 people for military training next year, according to a draft regulation presented by the ministry. The draftees will include territorial defence service people, up to 28,580 voluntary military service people and up to 38,000 active reservists. Additionally, the MoD is planning to add 17,128 new professional soldiers next year. According to the draft regulation, "the figures constitute an upper, non-extendible limit and do not assume the unconditional execution of the presented proposals." Poland abandoned national service in 2009 as the country switched to a professional military. However, after Russia's...

The White House on Friday downplayed the ramifications of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) announcing that she will leave the Democratic Party and officially register as an independent days after Democrats had secured a 51-49 majority in the Senate. “We understand that her decision to register as an independent in Arizona does not change the new Democratic majority control of the Senate, and we have every reason to expect that we will continue to work successfully with her,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. Jean-Pierre praised Sinema as a “key partner on some of the historic legislation President Biden...

A Moscow court on Friday sentenced prominent opposition politician Ilya Yashin to eight and a half years in jail for spreading "false" information about the Russian military in his criticism of the Kremlin invasion of Ukraine. The 39-year-old Moscow city councilor was found guilty for saying that occupying Russian forces in Ukraine were responsible for the massacre of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha this spring. Judge Oksana Goryunova of the Meshchansky district court said Yashin had committed a crime by disseminating "knowingly false information about Russia's Armed Forces." One of the few vocal Kremlin critics who chose to...

ANTIOCH, Calif. - The man held in an attack on an Antioch fast food restaurant manager pleaded not guilty on Thursday.

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that it looked like the Justice Department was moving towards an indictment of former President Donald Trump. The panel discussed reports the DOJ asked a federal judge to hold Trump in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena ordering the former president to turn over classified documents. Swalwell said, “Whatever you are your viewers may think about previous investigations into Donald Trump, and the frustration that has come with those, this team is not screwing around. I think that that reflects the gravity of what it’s...

"We're getting ready to elect the most powerful person, I would argue, in the United States and the world. The speaker's got a lot of power. Miss America gets vetted more than we're vetting the next speaker."

A baby in New Zealand whose parents wanted only "unvaccinated" blood used in operations has had urgent heart surgery after a court took guardianship of the child. Sue Grey, the anti-vaccination lawyer acting for the parents, told Radio New Zealand the surgery went ahead on Friday and the boy was doing well. The baby has a congenital heart defect and needed life-saving surgery, which his parents were not willing to go ahead with if blood transfusions were used from people who been vaccinated for COVID-19. New Zealand's health authority, Te Whatu Ora, went to court seeking temporary guardianship of the...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ JESUS HEALS A PARALYTIC LOWERED THROUGH A ROOF ֎ Featuring 32 Paintings and 4 Windows ֎ M A R K CHAPTER 2* A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they...

The FBI has continued stripping Americans of their Second Amendment rights through a secret operation in which agents convince individuals to voluntarily sign a document relinquishing their constitutional rights. The Washington Examiner, in an investigative report, explained the FBI presents various individuals with a form. Then, "the FBI asked signatories to identify as a 'danger' to themselves or others or lacking the 'mental capacity adequately to contract or manage' their lives. The forms were presented by the FBI to people at their homes and in other undisclosed locations beginning in at least 2016 and until December 2019, when the FBI...

Los Angeles Mayor-elect Karen Bass is set to be inaugurated on Sunday — and so city crews have been moving a homeless encampment from outside City Hall, hoping to avoid any unpleasant visuals when she is sworn in. The Los Angeles Times reported: Unhoused residents who have been living at 1st and Spring streets, some for several months, were loaded into vans Thursday and whisked to the L.A. Grand Hotel, a temporary homeless facility on Figueroa Street that is scheduled to shut down Jan. 31. Several said they were told that they needed to relocate in the run-up to Bass’...

A Russian court has sentenced the opposition politician Ilya Yashin to eight and a half years in prison, in the most high-profile case to date of a Russian dissident being jailed for opposing the invasion of Ukraine. Yashin was tried on charges of spreading false information meant to discredit the Russian army, under a law introduced after Russia launched its invasion, due to a series of posts in May about the murder and torture of Ukrainian civilians by Russian troops in the town of Bucha. “Expressing hatred of the political system of the Russian Federation and realising that he is...

For this year’s holidays, Yale Climate Connections is posting two bookshelves. The first, for occasional climate readers, consists of new books in popular genres like nature writing, history, current events, advice, and fiction. The second shelf of titles, presented below, is for the climate activists and academics on your gift list, the sort who can digest books written in more academic prose, published by university presses, and focused on specific aspects of climate change. The Petroleum Papers: Insider the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki Greenhouse Planet: How Rising CO2 Changes Plants and Life as We...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 17The Temple Tax 24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?” 25 “Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?” 26 “From others,” Peter answered. “Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him. 27 “But so that we may...

While browsing around I cam across this AI search engine by Elon Musk. Is there anything he is not into? There is a trail version at the website and is free for right now. It will ask for your name, email, and phone number. It is web based so no download. Supposedly this will put Google out of business within two years. I tried "FreeRepublic"and it came up with this: FreeRepublic is a forum website that is popular among conservatives and libertarian-leaning individuals. It was founded in 1996 by Jim Robinson, and it is known for its discussions of news...

Ian Miles Cheong on Twitter: "So here’s a question for @elonmusk and @bariweiss: were any political candidates — either in the US or elsewhere — subject to shadowbanning while they were running for office or seeking re-election?" / Twitter Elon Musk on Twitter: "@stillgray @bariweiss Yes" / Twitter https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601059434330890241 Related:Who is Vijaya Gadde, the Twitter exec involved in censoring Post’s Hunter Biden laptop bombshell?

LUTEFISK DAY On December 9th, Lutefisk Day reminds residents in Norway, Finland, and Sweden to begin preparing their lutefisk for Christmas. The day is also referred to as Anna’s Day. In case you’re not Scandinavian, lutefisk is basically cod that gets soaked in lye. After the cod is caught, it’s dried to the point of becoming firm and leathery. To tenderize the fish and bring it back to its former condition, it gets soaked in lye. Once it’s nice and tender, the lutefisk is skinned and boned. Finally, the fish is boiled until it reaches a gelatinous consistency. Another way...

Sam Brinton, the Biden Regime’s nonbinary “nuclear waste guru” who allegedly stole a woman’s suitcase from the Minneapolis Airport, is now accused of stealing luggage from yet another airport. A felony warrant was issued for Brinton after he allegedly stole luggage from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, according to 8 News Now. Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Energy Department’s Office of Nuclear Energy, was reportedly placed on leave over the summer. The role-playing “pup handler” is being charged in this latest offense with grand larceny of items with a value...

Bari Weiss, founder and editor of The Free Press, released the second volume of the so-called “Twitter files” on Thursday, revealing the social media platform’s “secret blacklists.” Weiss has been working with Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk and independent journalist Matt Taibbi to disclose internal Twitter information regarding censorship. Twitter’s censorship methods, according to Weiss, included placing specific users on a “Trends Blacklist” or a “Search Blacklist.” The popular Libs of TikTok account, as well as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, are among the users who were secretly added to the “Trends Blacklist”...

Buc-ee’s is a chain of country stores and gas stations with locations in Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee. They have a cult following among consumers. Buc-ee’s is not just any convenience store. They’re loved by the locals and people passing through. They have all the fuel you need: beaver nuggets (caramel popcorn), Texas-style brisket sandwiches, tons of fresh jerky, kolaches, drinks and of course gas pumps galore. And you can browse the collection of t-shirts, hats, blankets, mugs — you name it — all emblazoned with Buc-ee the Beaver. And about those bathrooms. They’ve been named...